Explain how Andrew Marvell uses allegory and/or classical allusion to direct the reader's response to history in one or more of his civil war poems'.

In his poem The Nymph complaining for the death of her Faun Andrew Marvell puts allegory and classical allusion to work with great effect and I will show in this essay how he directs the reader to see the historical references he was alluding to. Andrew Marvell's father was a minister and Marvell would probably have heard allegorical interpretation on a daily basis as well as in sermons. Coupling this with his education I would …

…her Faun, in Davidson, Peter, ed, Poetry and Revolution, An Anthology of British And Irish Verse 1625-1660 (Oxford: Oxford University Press., 2001), pp.438-442. Secondary Texts. Eliot, T.S., Andrew Marvell in George deF. Lord, ed, Andrew Marvell, A Collection Of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968), pp.18-28. King, Bruce., Marvell's Allegorical Poetry (Cambridge: The Oleander Press., 1997), pp. 47-65. Leishman, J.B., The Art of Marvell's Poetry (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1972), pp.90-159.